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Jan 20, 2017 56 min

16-20 January 1917

from Home Front - Omnibus Hosted by BBC Radio 4

In the week in 1917 when a munitions factory explosion in Silvertown, East London, killed 73 workers, and damaged 70,000 properties, the aftereffects of the Marshalls factory explosion are still rippling through every level of people's lives in Tyneside. Written by Sarah Daniels Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Sound: Martha Littlehailes Composer: Matthew Strachan Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.

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